Time shares are horrible from what a coworker says. Not only can he not get out of paying for it, he has to pay maintenance fees for the resorts even if he doesn't go.

My sister answered her phone one day and asked, "Is this Scam Likely?"

Not yet.

Scamming as evil... never sleeps. Is a full time job to a lot of humans. I used to work on reloadable credit cards were the target was the elderly helping out a grandchild from going to jail. Sad when I had to tell the customer it is a "victim assisted crime" with little law enforcement can do since they voluntarily provided the information over the phone. By the way IRS will never call you. Law enforcement never call you to keep one of your loved ones out of jail either.

Not the kind of scam you're thinking of probably, but long ago a friend talked me into going to see a "psychic". Well, right away this person knew I wasn't going to be fooled, so she gave me a very short, general reading.

My friend, however, was another matter. I found out a couple of weeks later that she had gone back several times, paying more each time, because the psychic told her that the energy generated from the money transfer helped her see more clearly.

No had a close call though. My grandfather got a call that I was in jail for drinking under the influence (quite out of character for me because I don't drink or like driving). The guy apparently sounded like me and claimed that a $1000 gift card to target could get him out (sketchy). That day I felt like visiting him because I had not seen him for a few months, so I did. I went there and my grandfather look so surprised that I was no longer in jail (never was). He had the 1000$ gift card in his hand and was just about read to dial it in, we had conversation about it and ended up saving him his 1000$. At least I know he'd do anything for me, despite this being a scam artist. Praise be to the FSM!

I had a friend who fell for the pidgeon drop scam. In my early days on AOL I gave my password to someone claiming to work for company, though realized that I had fallen for a ploy and changed my password befote logging off, phew. A phishing scam fooled me for a few minutes once, but since I didn't have an ATM card at the time, I was just puzzled as to why they wanted info I couldn't provide.

They get more sophisticated every day. I got scammed by people pretending to part of the fed loan forgiveness program. They had an actual addrea in the us. An actual better business bureau number, web site blah blah blah. Turns out it was all a shell company.

They get more sophisticated every day. I got scammed by people pretending to part of the fed loan forgiveness program. They had an actual addrea in the us. An actual better business bureau number, web site blah blah blah. Turns out it was all a shell company.

they wouldn't be scamming if they weren't making money

when I get something suspicious I always verify the source. Also I always initiate contact with a legitimate phone number or address that I obtained. This is the only way to be safe today

My brothers fall for them all the time and they never learn. I used to try to tell them not to put their money in those things, but they just got mad and said that just because I went to College I think that I know it all. They have lost so much money and they still fall for many of those scams.

I have never fell victim to a scammer either in the mail or Internet